SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA
RASEAN CLAYTON,

)
)
Plaintiff/Appellee, )
)
v.
)
)
KANYE WEST, et al.,
)
)
Defendants/Appellants. )
)
__________________________________)

Arizona Supreme Court
No. CV-20-0249-AP/EL
Maricopa County
Superior Court
No. CV2020-010553
FILED 09/08/2020

DECISION ORDER
The Court, by a panel consisting of Vice Chief Justice Timmer,
Justice Bolick, Justice Lopez and Justice Montgomery, considered the
briefs of the parties, the trial court’s rulings, and the relevant
statutes and case law in this expedited election matter.
The trial court entered an Order for Temporary and Permanent
Injunctive Relief (With Notice) on September 3, 2020 enjoining the
Arizona Secretary of State and the county boards of supervisors and
county

recorders

from

authorizing

or

causing

defendant

candidate

Kanye West to appear on the ballot for president and also enjoining
the defendant presidential electors from appearing as candidates for
the office of presidential electors on the ballot for the general
election.
accepting

The

court

any

further

nomination

enjoined
petitions

the

Secretary

from

of

Candidate

State

from

and/or

his

presidential electors that are not preceded by statements of interest
from those electors.
The

Court

finds

that

defendants

seeking

to

qualify

as

presidential electors failed to comply with A.R.S. § 16-341(I), which

 Arizona Supreme Court Case No. CV-20-0249-AP/EL
Page 2 of 3
requires candidates for office to file a statement of interest with
the appropriate filing officer for that office. Under that statute,
“Any nomination petition signatures collected before the date of the
statement

of

interest

are

invalid

and

subject

to

challenge.”

“Consequently, Defendant West has failed to qualify for the ballot.”
Therefore,
IT

IS

ORDERED

affirming

the

trial

court

and

enjoining

the

Secretary of State, county boards of supervisors and county recorders
from

placing

defendant

Kanye West

and

his designated

presidential

electors on the ballot for the November 3, 2020 general election.
An opinion will follow.
DATED this 8th day of September, 2020.

___________/s/________________
ANN A. SCOTT TIMMER
Vice Chief Justice

 Arizona Supreme Court Case No. CV-20-0249-AP/EL
Page 3 of 3
TO:
Mary R O'Grady
Joseph N Roth
Joshua David Rothenberg Bendor
Timothy A LaSota
Timothy J Berg
Kara Karlson
Dustin D Romney
Joseph Young
Christine Roberts
Rose Winkeler
Jefferson R Dalton
Kenneth A Angle
Jeremy O Ford
Ryan Norton Dooley
Joseph Eugene La Rue
Andrea L Cummings
Matthew J Smith
Ryan Henry Esplin
Bradley W Carlyon
Jason S Moore
Barbara LaWall
Daniel S Jurkowitz
Craig C Cameron
Charlene A Laplante
Kimberly J Hunley
Matthew Black
Jon R Smith
William J Kerekes
Edward P Feheley
Hon M Scott McCoy
Hon Jeff Fine